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≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
We mentioned this one long ago, and it’s time to mention it again: You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kibbie (University of Michigan) on original baroque organs in Leipzig, Germany. Feel free to start with a collection of Favorite Masterworks, or get the complete works that have been [...]
≡ Category: Art, Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Los Angeles has long been known as the street mural capital of the world. But in the past few years the city has painted over more than 300 murals, according to the Los Angeles Times, enforcing a decade-old ordinance that makes it a crime to create murals on most private properties. “The mural capital of [...]
≡ Category: Art, Current Affairs | ≅ 11 Comments
Pepper spray students in the face on Friday, and you wake up the face of evil on Saturday. Then, the brunt of some clever jokes on Monday. Look! There’s Lieutenant John Pike popping into the famous painting, The Spirit of ’76, and macing a wounded soldier while he’s down. That’s low. Now the symbol of French freedom, Delacroix’s Liberty [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 3 Comments
The great artists are often the ones who are best at recognizing and exploiting the unique character of their medium. In the early 20th century, photography was mired in an intentionally fuzzy Pictorialism. The prevailing view was that it had to imitate painting, or it wasn’t “art.” So in the early 1930s Edward Weston, Ansel [...]
≡ Category: Economics, Online Courses | ≅ 7 Comments
David Harvey, an important social theorist and geographer, has got the right idea. Take what you know. Teach it in the classroom. Capture it on video. Then distribute it to the world. Keep it simple, but just do it. Harvey is now making available 26 hours of lectures, during which he gives a close reading [...]
≡ Category: Art, History | ≅ 4 Comments
In June 1937 Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, a mural that memorialized the events of April 27, 1937, the date when Germany supported its fascist ally Francisco Franco and bombed Guernica, a rather remote town in the Basque region of northern Spain. For the Nazis, the military strike was an excuse to try out their latest [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 4 Comments
It’s becoming a trend. Around the country, policemen are pepper spraying peaceful protestors. It started in NYC when Tony Bologna, one of New York’s finest, pepper sprayed a group of young women already cordoned off by a police barrier. Next they managed to get an 84 year old woman in Seattle. And now Lieutenant John Pike [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 4 Comments
This fall, Stanford launched a highly-publicized experiment in online learning. The university took three of its most popular computer science courses and made them freely available to the world. Each course features interactive video clips; short quizzes that provide instant feedback; and the ability to pose high value questions to Stanford instructors. The response? It has been nothing [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Grammy-winning 2000 film, The Clash: Westway to the World, is a fascinating look at the rise and fall of one of history’s greatest rock bands. The Clash didn’t invent punk rock–bands like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols preceded them–but they did their best to reinvent it, moving beyond the self-absorbed nihilism of the [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
A little gift from Moby to filmmakers. If you’re an indie filmmaker, non-profit filmmaker or film student, you can head to MobyGratis.com, register for the site, and then start browsing through a fairly extensive catalogue of recordings — 120+ recordings in total. As Moby tells us, you can “download whatever you want to use in [...]
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